making cdroms read and write

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:30:28AM -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> 
>    I have a question concerning the fstab and mtab.  How do I make
>    sure that the cdroms are read write both and is there a way to do
>    this in Gnome?

As root, use any text editor to make changes to /etc/fstab. Never edit
/etc/mtab; that is reserved for the mount system.

As for making CR-ROMs writable, don't bother. For the purposes of
mounting and /etc/fstab, they are read only. Mount will determine that
a CD is read only and mount it RO.

Software that writes to one writes to the raw device, bypassing the
whole file system entirely. At that point, the device had better not
be mounted.

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